HEre in Jefferson COunty Colorado, there is a higher than usual incidence of
Whooping Cough. The county health nurse was visitng the garden center,
wondering if she could set up a booth on Mother's Day weekend to encourage
folks to get whooping, dipthera, and tetanus shots. It would only cost $5 so
I guess it must be serious. However, I was a bit concerned about publicity
for the tetanus shot....garden center...tetanus in soil....Mother's DAy
weekend....terrorists in your soil...gloom and doom..don't garden mindset...
But then again with my sick sense of humor... I thought that publicity
something like GET YOUR MOTHER SHOT FOR MOTHER'S DAY
Betsy
60 degrees at the house today who whoo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Browning" <judylee@lewiston.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHAT now vaccines was now IOWA-
> My first polio vaccine was scratched into the skin, as was the smallpox.
> That was in the '50s. I was really happy when the next polio vaccine was
on
> the sugar cube. Now smallpox is so rare, the vaccine is riskier than the
> chance of exposure to the disease. Whooping cough & diptheria are the ones
I
> don't remember anyone actually having.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 1:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHAT now vaccines was now IOWA-
>
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > Didn't they darken the room for measles because of possible damage to
the
> > eyes? I think that's what I remember being told when I wanted to read.
> >
> > It's amazing how much polio there was around in the fairly recent past.
I
> > remember when they'd close the pool and theaters and such. My brother
had
> > polio, but my mother, like yours, insisted that he exercise. Picking up
> > marbles with his toes was one of the exercises I remember. He has a bit
of
> > a roll to his gait, but otherwise you'd never know.
> >
> > I don't remember anyone having Scarlet Fever, but Mumps, 2 kinds of
> > measles, chicken pox and whooping cough were pretty common. I don't
> > remember vaccinations for anything but Tetanus and Smallpox when I was
> > little. I remember when they introduced the polio vaccine and we had to
> > line up in school to be stuck. The nurse was not gentle!
> >
> > I was delighted some years later when they came out with the sugar cube
> > thing- until they showed us a movie about how the vaccine was made (in
> > monkey kidneys) . I was young enough (Jr. High or so) to remember that
> > movie vividly.
> >
> > d
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHAT now vaccines was now IOWA-
> >
> >
> >> That's what my kids got, Cyndi--the sugar cube. I took it, too, but I
> >> was an adult. Most--maybe all--immunizations did not exist when I was a
> >> little kid. A tyke at my first birthday party died of scarlet fever a
> >> week or so later; I had all those childhood diseases, except scarlet
> >> fever--measles [for some reason they darkened the room until the
> >> fistulas healed], mumps, whooping cough [for this, they boiled
> >> eucalyptus leaves in an old coffee pot in my room], and who knows what
> >> else. My younger brother got polio in the late-30s and we were
> >> quarantined by LA County; my mother [remember, she was the daughter of
a
> >> homeopath] put more credence in Sister Kinney than in iron lungs, so
she
> >> forced him to exercise 24/7. He has no trace of the affliction today
> >> [unless, of course, he can't figure out any other way to get out of
> >> something he doesn't want to do--then it becomes a major "war wound"
> >> excuse].
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Apr 3, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
> >>
> >>> I remember getting the polio vaccine on a sugar cube. I never got a
> >>> smallpox
> >>> vaccination though, long time ago my mother said I got so sick after
> >>> vaccinations she was afraid to have me get that one. I guess it
> >>> wouldn't
> >>> provide any protection now anyway.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cyndi
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [mailto:owner-gardenchat@hort.net] On
> >>> Behalf
> >>> Of Zemuly Sanders
> >>> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:30 AM
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHATnow IOWA-
> >>>
> >>> I remember the polio epidemic, too. My mother was scared to death I
> >>> would
> >>> get it. I was fascinated by the iron lungs.
> >>> zem
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
> >>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 11:09 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [CHATnow IOWA-
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I went through a terrible polio epidemic in South Texas when I was
> >>>> young...closed all public places...my dad had a touch but regained
the
> >>>> use
> >>>> of his arm. When the vaccine came out several years later, we were
> >>>> thrilled to get it. All such precautions have downsides on someone
> >>>> whose
> >>>> chemistry is different...we just don't seem to be able to accept risk
> >>>> and
> >>>> non-blame consequences. Too many people don't remember or know that
> >>>> many
> >>>> died of infections before WWII.
> >
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